History, examined beyond the frame.

On November 7, 1885, a hammer blow completed the Canadian Pacific Railway’s track connection. The construction photographs tell a larger, harder story.

On November 6, 1913, Indian workers and their families crossed a provincial border in South Africa. Arrests could remove their leaders, but they could not end the strike.

The Radium Girls’ history connects luminous dial painting with evidence in breath and bone, a contested settlement, long research and contaminated factory sites.